Is it true that drinking cow's milk is beneficial for a patient with peptic ulcer?

Answer:
The calcium will actually cause increased acid production, but the scientific evidence overall is, "we dunno." If it feels good, it's probably OK, and it was a mainstay of treatment in the first half of the twentieth century, when there was a general idea that white things felt good and red things bad for your ulcer, It sounds crazy in the world of $3-a-pill proton pump inhibitors and routine esophagogastroduodenoscopy, but to a large degree it still holds fairly true.

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most ulcers are due to high amounts of stomach acid. milk is a base, and should therefore neutralize some of the acid.

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Yes and no..it (as well as Mylanta or other ant-acids) helps with the symptoms a bit but the cause of peptic ulcer is parasitic/bacterial.so it makes sense to cure it rather than mask it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/peptic_ulce...
http://glycob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/con...

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